“Our petition (viewable on the website Sign the petition) to ask Minister Bernini to abolish the restricted number of places for admission to the Faculty of Medicine has broken through the wall of 40 thousand signatures in a week.
A result that has evidently frightened those who, in a completely unreasonable manner, persist in defending this obsolete access system that undermines the right to education and the right to health" say the promoters of the committee Abolish the restricted number - #iononhoimbrogliato
Born spontaneously from a group of students, parents and citizens, the Committee aims to carry out initiatives to overcome the current system of entry to Medicine, finally guaranteeing the full right to study to thousands of girls and boys and ensuring, at the same time, a rapid solution to the tragic shortage of doctors.
"The newspapers," they continue, "are filled with war bulletins every day. After hiring Cuban doctors in Calabria to address the shortage of healthcare workers, the Brindisi Local Health Authority is ready to hire professionals from abroad. Two years ago, there were 4.354 general practitioners in the Lazio region; today, that number has dropped to 4.056. In Rome alone, there were 2.526, and now there are 1.982, over 500 fewer. And it is the president of the Lazio Medical Association, Antonio Magi, himself, who provided these figures."
"This is a contradiction that truly leaves one speechless," commented lawyers Francesco Leone and Simona Fell. "A schizophrenic system that on the one hand complains about an unsustainable shortage of doctors and on the other staunchly defends the system that causes it.
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It should also be clarified that the lack of specialists is not due to a lack of scholarships for specialization, but to a lack of medical graduates. Last year alone, 2043 scholarships for specialization remained unfilled and were therefore wasted. Are there a lack of specialists? True, but because there is a lack of doctors”.
Following the campaigns launched by the law firm, and after the establishment of the Committee, Change published an appeal-petition to Minister Bernini, on the website change.org, which collected over 40 thousand signatures, a number destined to grow.
The goal is to collect thousands of signatures and physically bring the appeal to Rome, at the Ministry's headquarters, by the end of October.
The lawyers will tour Italy to explain the reasons for their battle and meet all those who want to actively participate in the protest actions.
We start from Naples, on Monday 2 October with a meeting in Piazza Garibaldi (on the Hotel Terminus side) at 10 am and then – at 15 pm – in the rooms of the Hotel Terminus.
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